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Great Falls city, Montana: commercial real estate data.
Great Falls city is a Census city of 60,329 people across 23.13 square miles of land, in Cascade County. Median household income is $63,373, 66.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 74 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $29.4 m.
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Great Falls
What Great Falls is
- Census place typecity
- Land area23.13 sq mi
- Water area0.48 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,608
- County holding the largest share of its areaCascade County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Great Falls
How many people live in Great Falls
- Population60,329
- Median age39.0
- Population under 1812,897
- Share under 1821.4 percent
- Population 65 and over12,067
- Share 65 and over20.0 percent
- Households26,379
- Family households14,557
- Share of households that are families55.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Great Falls
Income and work in Great Falls
- Median household income$63,373
- Per capita income$38,231
- Civilian labor force29,556
- Employed28,459
- Unemployed1,097 plus or minus 268
- Unemployment rate3.7 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Adults 25 and over42,463
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher27.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Great Falls
Housing in Great Falls
- Housing units28,418
- Occupied units26,379
- Vacant units2,039
- Vacancy rate7.2 percent
- Owner occupied17,439
- Renter occupied8,940
- Ownership rate66.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$257,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$900
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.0 percent
- Single family units19,739
- Share single family69.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more7,427
- Share in buildings of two or more26.1 percent
- Mobile homes1,197 plus or minus 257
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Great Falls
How Great Falls gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute26,742
- Commuting under 15 minutes14,790
- Share commuting under 15 minutes55.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,038
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more7.6 percent
- Drove alone79.3 percent
- Carpooled9.7 percent
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home6.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Great Falls
SBA 7(a) lending to Great Falls borrowers
- Approvals74
- Gross approval$29,376,000
- Average approval$396,973
- Median approval$144,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$864,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported507
- Jobs per approval6.9
- Loans with a final outcome11
- Paid in full10
- Charged off1
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans9.1 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.5 percent
- Share to franchises6.8 percent
- Distinct lenders19
- Distinct industries by NAICS49
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Great Falls
SBA 504 lending to Great Falls borrowers
- Approvals50
- Gross approval$29,995,000
- Average approval$599,900
- Median approval$414,000
- Largest approval$3,964,000
- Jobs supported377
- Loans with a final outcome12
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs6
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Cascade County, not Great Falls
Cascade County context, not Great Falls figures
These are Cascade County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Great Falls measurements.
- Establishments in Cascade County2,472
- Employment at those establishments, Cascade County30,050
- Covered employment, Cascade County36,513
- Average annual pay, Cascade County$55,412
- Average weekly wage, Cascade County$1,066
- Housing units permitted, Cascade County223
- Of those, single family, Cascade County164
- County product, 2024, Cascade County$5,711,533,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cascade County4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cascade County$59,339
Every figure in this section is published for Cascade County as a whole and is not a measurement of Great Falls. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Great Falls questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Great Falls, Montana?
60,329, in 26,379 households. Great Falls city covers 23.13 square miles of land, which is 2,608 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Great Falls in?
Cascade County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Great Falls?
$63,373. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $257,000. Median gross rent is $900 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Great Falls businesses?
74 7(a) approvals totalling $29.4 m, across 19 lenders, median approval $144,000, plus 50 504 approvals worth $30.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Great Falls, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Great Falls borrowers get paid back?
Of the 11 loans that have reached a final outcome, 10 were paid in full and 1 charged off, a charge off rate of 9.1 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Are the county figures on this page Great Falls figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cascade County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Great Falls.
Is zoning published for Great Falls?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.